http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/09/biometrics.card.idg/index.html
"Smart cards to contain biometric data
February 9, 2000
Web posted at: 12:12 p.m. EST (1712
GMT)
by Laura Rohde
(IDG) -- A smart card that can verify its
owner through fingerprint verification or
iris recognition has been developed by
Keyware Technologies and Proton World
International.
[etc]
> Ideally, a truly secure system would rely on three things in order to
> grant you access: something you know (a passphrase), something you have
> (e.g. a smartcard), and something you are (a biometric). I rather like
> the American Biometrics Biomouse Plus because it has an integrated
> smartcard reader. It doesn't come bundled with any terribly useful
> software though. What's really needed is a unit with a small keyboard
> as well.
The last company I was an employee of made such a keyboard. I designed
most of the s/w architecture and did the biometric keyboard as a special
project. The biometric smartcard keyboard was shown at Comdex in Las
Vegas last year. All crypto and biometric verification was done in the
keyboard, so as to not expose those things to the potentially hostile PC.
The keyboard does SET, so it's non-trivial software that's in it. :-)
Compaq has announced that they will be selling some versions
of that keyboard Real Soon Now, they call it something
like "Enhanced Security Smartcard Keyboard".
BTW, you shouldn't use the toad.com address.
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Eric Murray www.lne.com/~ericm ericm at the site lne.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5
